2007-03-01 09:30
Free Photoshop Online in the making
The other day I wrote about Picnik, an online picture editor.
Yesterday, CNET reported that within half a year, Adobe plans to release a hosted version of Photoshop. They’re expecting Google to come up with something similar, so they’re attempting to beat them to it.
My first thought was something like: “Poor Picnik.” With free online photo editors coming from both Adobe and Google, they’re going to struggle. Then again, here’s their chance to excel in ease of use and integration with Flickr, blogging software and other online services.
Then I thought: “Poor Adobe.” (Well, not that poor …) As David Young wrote in Joyeur, the Joyent weblog a few days ago, as soon as you know Google is working on something similar to what you’re developing, you’re probably better off doing something else. Quote mr. Young:
There’s just no point, my fellow entrepreneurs, in charging up a hill already occupied by Leviathan.
But there are probably also a lot of people who would like to use a hosted version of Adobe’s Photoshop rather than something entirely different from Google.
(Via Swedish MacWorld)
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2007-02-23 14:56
Online photo editor: Picnik
Today, Photojojo praises a new online application for photo editing called Picnik, and I can understand why. It’s an extremely slick web application which works in a very intuitive and user friendly way. For example, getting it to work with my Flickr account was a breeze.
But getting it to work after getting it to work with Flickr wasn’t as easy. I tried editing a couple of my badly color balanced mobile pictures, and while the resulting pictures look much better, it caused my browser to hang several times during processing (and I even tested in Safari after Firefox hung twice, with the same result), requiring me to restart the browser. That said, full props to Picnik for getting me right back where I left, with almost no work lost.
I’m looking forward to when it’s getting more stable. To be fair, it’s not much more than a month old, and has the all too common “beta” tag in the upper left corner. So while I won’t be using it much right now, I’ll be following their blog to see how it comes along. And I suspect it might work better in Windows, so if you’re a Windows user, go ahead and check out Picnik and judge for yourself.
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